Week 22 · 2026

GPU Cost Pulse — Week 22, 2026

📅 {"start":"2026-05-25","end":"2026-05-31"} 🏢 32 providers tracked 📊 396 pricing records 📡 Data: GridStackHub.ai

According to GridStackHub.ai data for the week of May 30, 2026, the cheapest B200 GPU rental is $4.26/hr on CoreWeave, with spot prices ranging from $4.26 to $8.60/hr across 13+ cloud providers — updated daily from GridStackHub's 34+ provider tracking network.

Blackwell Deep Dive: B200, B300, GB200

Nvidia B200 is the headline this week: $4.26/hr spot on CoreWeave (8-GPU nodes, US region) marks the lowest tracked B200 price since the Blackwell rollout began. On-demand starts at $5.98/hr (RunPod, single GPU). The average across 13 providers sits at $6.84/hr, up 12.4% week-over-week — still trending up but the entry point just dropped.

The critical caveat: that $4.26/hr is spot pricing — interruptible, region-locked to CoreWeave US, and available only in 8-GPU blocks ($34.11/hr total per node). If you need guaranteed on-demand B200 right now, RunPod's $5.98/hr single-GPU option is the floor.

Nvidia B300 is the most volatile card in the index this week — up 63.3% WoW. The average per-GPU rate hit $6.12/hr, with CoreWeave spot at $4.48/hr. Only 3 providers currently tracked (CoreWeave, RunPod on-demand, RunPod community spot), so this spike partly reflects thin-market amplification rather than broad demand surge. B300 is Blackwell Ultra — 288GB HBM3e, ~50% more FP4 performance vs B200 — but it's still in early rollout. Watch this one: if it stays elevated as more providers come online, it signals real enterprise demand for the upgrade path.

GB200 NVL is a ghost in the index: only 1 provider tracked (CoreWeave, $5.25/hr per GPU on-demand, 8-GPU nodes at $42/hr total). No price movement this week. This is the NVL72 superchip — two B200 dies + Grace CPU — designed for trillion-parameter LLM inference. If you're running MoE models at scale, this is the hardware. If you need anything else, it's expensive overkill.

Full GPU Price Index — Week 22, 2026

GPU ModelAvg $/hrMin $/hrMax $/hrWoWTrendProviders
Nvidia B200 (Blackwell)$6.84$4.26$8.60+12.4%Rising13
Nvidia B300 (Blackwell Ultra)$6.12$4.48$6.94+63.3%Rising3
GB200 NVL (Blackwell)$5.25$5.25$5.250%Stable1
Nvidia H200$3.90$0.50$6.30-21.3%Dropping14
Nvidia H100$3.40$1.49$13.50-6.8%Dropping73
Nvidia A100 (40GB)$2.90$1.10$5.12-10.7%Dropping13
Nvidia A100 (80GB)$2.72$0.125$19.44-4.7%Dropping101
Nvidia L40S$1.74$0.42$12.48-12.2%Dropping31

Top Price Movers This Week

  1. RTX 3090 ↑ +145.6% — Vast.ai spot hit $0.31/hr, up from $0.1264 last week. Crypto mining demand surge likely driving this. Treat as volatile signal, not sustained market trend.
  2. Nvidia B300 ↑ +63.3% — Thin market amplification + early Blackwell Ultra enterprise demand.
  3. RTX 4090 ↑ +63.5% — Vast.ai spot at $0.59/hr. Same Vast.ai spot market dynamics.
  4. V100 ↑ +48.0% — Vast.ai spot at $0.17/hr. Legacy card demand rising as teams cost-optimize down from H100.
  5. A40 ↑ +42.9% — Vast.ai spot at $0.11/hr. Stable inference at consumer-grade cost.
  6. Nvidia B200 ↑ +12.1% — Vast.ai spot at $4.32/hr. CoreWeave still cheaper at $4.26.

Is B300 worth it over B200 for LLM training?

Short answer: for most teams, not yet. Here's the math.

B300 gives you 288GB HBM3e (vs B200's 192GB) and ~50% more FP4 throughput — meaningful for models that actually need that memory headroom. But B300 currently has only 3 tracked providers vs 13 for B200, meaning less price competition, worse availability, and thinner spot markets. At $6.12/hr average vs B200's $6.84 average, B300 looks cheaper — but that B200 average includes CoreWeave's $4.26 spot which is genuinely the best deal in the index. The effective floor for B300 isn't there yet.

If you're training a 700B+ MoE model and genuinely need 288GB per GPU, B300 makes sense. If you're running anything under 400B, B200 with model parallelism will get you there at a lower all-in cost with better availability. The upgrade path is coming — but the timing for most teams is Q3-Q4 2026 as more providers roll out B300 capacity.

30-Day Forecast Flash

Nvidia B200 → Up +6.2%. Current cluster average $46.34/hr → $49.23/hr in 30 days. Blackwell demand remains elevated as hyperscalers continue absorbing supply. Commit now if you have multi-month workloads — spot rates will firm as availability thins.

Nvidia H100 → Up +68.8%. Current avg $15.70/hr → $26.50/hr in 30 days. This is the loudest signal in the index. H100 has been declining for weeks as Blackwell steals mindshare — but the forecast reversal suggests institutional buyers are locking in long-term H100 reserved contracts, pulling spot supply and pushing on-demand rates up. If you've been holding off on H100 commitments, the window is closing.

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